and energy. and patience. and, uh, stuff like that.

-- the whole thing with daschle bothers me. it's weird. i mean, i think it was the "right" result, in a nontrivial sense. i just don't like the way it happened, which makes it hard for me to feel right about it. i guess ( Read more... )

oh my fucking god are you serious?

$44 MILLION for education research and the "next big idea" they're testing is if giving students CASH or CELL PHONE MINUTES for improving their scores on STANDARDIZED TESTS ( Read more... )

so i thought tonight's debate was seriously a waste of time. except perhaps as a study in what passes for journalism these days. seriously. i thought i liked george stephanopolos, but wtf?! what kind of questions did he think he was asking tonight? "does rev. wright love america as much as you do?" the whole thing was just a big game of "gotcha" ( Read more... )

i think it's easy to be dismissive of the strike, as i (like many) doubt whether it will make any lasting impact on SUP. it seems to me some of the people involved are getting a bit too "democracy in action" about it, as if ad-free webspace were some sort of civil right. but i do get where these people are coming from ( Read more... )

so the bush administration finally actually admitted to using waterboarding. but don't worry! the attorney general said it was okay, so it was legal! and not torture.

ahem.

i suck i suck i suck. i failed at a task so monumentally simple and banal that i should really be ridden out of the human community on a rail.

and yet i somehow can't bring myself to be all that strenuously upset about it.

go figure.

marginal utility is depressing because horning complains about the effects of consumer(ist) culture without questioning any of its (psychological or sociological, let alone ontological or metaphysical) underpinnings and hence being unable to imagine any (and i mean any) alternatives to it--and thereby he succumbs to the very hipsterish elitism he ( Read more... )

oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. caring about politics is really stressful! it's right up there with moving and changing jobs...

so missouri and montana look hopeful--it will come down to virginia.

if only i could be confident that the dems will change things in a meaningful way. o, tempora! o mores!i am flippant so as not to be melodramatic ( Read more... )

...or, alternately, "why does habeus corpus hate america?"

this one's so good, i'm posting it in full. (transcript taken from crooks & liars.)

Because the Mark Foley story began to break the night of September 28th, exploding the following day, many people may not have noticed a bill passed by the Senate that night ( Read more... )

for now, the former. and later...????


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